The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-11-10
Generalities.

The More claim to the site of San Francisco
has been pronounced forgery.
Extensive gold fields have been discovered in
the northwest part of Cape Colony.
Five local assemblies in the Northwest have
seeded from the Knights of Labor.
De Lesscps announces that the Panama Canal
Will be opened OH February 3, 1890.
commercial union club has been formed in
Toronto. with Prof. Goodwin Smith as prcsi-
dent.
The Lehigh and Wlkesbarre Coal Company
struck new vein of coal which will net them
$1,000 600.
Fraudulent insurance to the amount of hum
urtus OF thousands of dollars has been placed
i'll Michigan.
The number of persons who have cmisrated
from Germany is $4,000 over the number of
| Migrants in 1856.
| TOO much eXertion at lawn tennis caused he
death of promising and popular student at
ale University.
Mr. Washington Irving Bishop, the mind
| reader. has been seriously ill with an cpileptc
| lit in San Francisco.
David Scott, well-known paper merchant
| OF New ork, has disappeared leaving $50. coo
| of outstanding notes.
Walker Blaine has formed partnership
with Mr.. +. T. Gorton of Chicago, and viii
| practice law in that city.
Mrs. Holmes of Cincinnati has Just completed
4 5ooo-nlc Yacht cruise on the great lax, =.
| she managed her own Yacht
| Williamson and Flint have broken from the
Base Ball Players brotherhood, and signed
contracts With the Chcagos.
Jenny Lind GoldSchmidt, the celebrated
| swedish singer, is dead, aged GG. She has not
| appeared in public since 1866.
| The mares Belle Halnlin and .Justiua were
| tfotted mile at Buffalo, n. y, Thursday. to
wagon, in Is, beating the worlds record.
Mrs Samuel Nelson of Oakland Ill.,, gave
BIRTH to four children. The children are doing
well, bet the mothers life is despaired Of.
The English Cabinet has resolved to continue
It's present vigorous policy in Ireland especially
as regards speeches at proclaimed meeting
Lieut.. Hem, owner of the Galatea saws he
VIII bring his boat to America again in the
spring ANA take part in all OF next season, re-
stttta>.
The campaign fund of the New York
Democrats probably reached 5000, 900. the
great part of which was kept for distribution
on election day.
News from Honolulu by steamer indicates
the probable defeat of the government and the
reconstruction of the cabinet when the lerisl,
tule meets this month
More railway track was laid in this country
from Jan. L. 1851, to November 1st than was
ever before laid in the same length of time in
this or any other country.
Chief Justice Waite Is the only member of
the supreme Court who does not employ a pri-
Vate secretary. II don't want one," he saws.
'he'ei only be in the way
At Fair Trade League conference in Lon
don last week, resolutions We're passed favor
ING change in the fiscal policy of Great Britain
IN the direction of protection.
The Commercial Gable Company ha, filed
certificate OF increase in capital stock from S4.-
100000 to $4,000, 900. Additional shares to the
number Of 10000 will be issued.
The municipal elections in England hay,
been completed. The returns show Il gain for
inc Liberals of IS and Il gain for the Conserya-
tlves and dissident Liberals OF 81.
Professor Eghert G.. Smythe, removed from
his professorship at Andover Seminary by vote
OF the Board Of Visitors, has carried the matter
before the Massachusetts, Supreme Court.
W. II. Vanderbilt has taken the castle Linden
NOT, which belonged to the late King of Bavaria,
for next summer. The Bavarian Government
refused to sell the castle to Mr.. Vanderbilt,
1t is said that the Hawaiian Government has
decided to cedc Pearl River IIarbor to the Unit
Ell states for coaling station so long as the
present reciprocity treaty remains in force,
An explosion in st. Louis grocery caused
the death of eight persons. The cause of the
explosion is not known, but various theories
among them that of dynamite have been start
ed.
Mail advices to London from Sierra Leone
say that the natives of Sannehoo have risen.
and massacred the native police and a number
OF other people. Two gunboats will proceed to
the scene.
The New York Graphic has been bought by
a syndicate, Of which Edwards ii. Golf is presi-
dent. 1t will be run as an Independent Demo-
cratic sheet. favorable to State and national adj
ministrations.
The delay i'll the sailing of one of the Allan
Line steamers from Montreal in July, 1885.
caused the death of 81 head of cattle. The
court decides that the company must paw the
shippers $500.
A resident of Franklin Parish, La. recently
gave party, and some wretch introduced poi
son into the food Seven persons have died
from the effects of the poison, and MANY others
are seriously ILL.
Leadville, Col, hasn't money enough to keep
its public schools open. 1t must not be infer
red, however, that the city is altogether lack
ing III publlc spirit, for it gives generous sup
port to 100 saloons.
Commissioner of Agriculture Coleman as
serts that Brooklyn, New York, and Baltimore
have for forty years been plague spots from
which pieuro-pneumonia in cattle has been
spread through the country.
Majority and minority reports were made
last week to the New Hampshire Legislature in
relation to the alleged bribery of members.
The majority report charges attempts at bril-
berry by two brokers of Boston and by other
parties.
circus train met with an accident in St.
Louis Thursday. Several cages were smashed
and the Bengal tigers. lions, leopards, ajuguar,
ibeN and vultures escaped. There was a great
stampede at first. 1t took all the afternoon to
recover the animals.
Governor sawyer OF New Hampshire has
vetoed the bill authorizing the Boston and
Lowell or Boston and Maine to lease the North
ern Railroad. or if leased by the Lowell permit
ting the Maine to guarantee and assume the
covenants Of such lease.